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Authors, Austrian 20th century Biography Dietrich, Sean 1982- Diplomatic Reception Rooms (Washington, D.C.) H. M 1926-2008 Harry S. Truman Federal Building (Washington, D.C.) Kafka, Franz 1883-1924 Scoville, William Beecher 1906-1984 Shakur, Tupac 1971-1996 Success in business United StatesDittrich, Luke
Summary: In the late 1930s, in asylums and hospitals across America, a group of renowned neurosurgeons worked to develop and refine a new class of brain operation--the lobotomy--that they hoped would eradicate everything from schizophrenia to homosexuality. These "psychosurgeons," as they called themselves, occupied a gray zone between medical research and medical practice, and ended up subjecting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.8 DITStack, Laura.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 650.11 STAStack, Jim
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Publisher / Publication Date: Popular Woodworking Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 684.104 STAStach, Reiner
Summary: "How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography answers that question with more facts, detail, and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883-1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KAFKA, FRANZ STAStach, Reiner.
Summary: This volume of Reiner Stach's acclaimed and definitive biography of Franz Kafka tells the story of the final years of the writer's life, from 1916 to 1924--a period during which the world Kafka had known came to an end. Stach's riveting narrative, which reflects the latest findings about Kafka's life and works, draws readers in with a nearly cinematic power, zooming in for extreme close-ups of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 833.912 STAStack, Jack
Summary: "This revised and updated edition ... lays out an entirely different way of running a company. It wasn't dreamed up in an executive think tank or an Ivy League business school or around the conference table by big-time consultants. It was forged on the factory floors of the heartland by ordinary folks hoping to figure out how to save their jobs when their parent company, International...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Business 2013
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1 available in Adult Display, Call number: 650.1 STABonhoeffer, Dietrich
Summary: What can the call to discipleship, the adherence to the word of Jesus, mean today to the businessman, the soldier, the laborer, or the aristocrat? What did Jesus mean to say to us? What is his will for us today? Drawing on the Sermon on the Mount, Dietrich Bonhoeffer answers these timeless questions by providing a seminal reading of the dichotomy between "cheap grace" and "costly grace."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone 1995
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Summary: ""Sean of the South" Sean Dietrich is known for his stories of steel workers, small towns and trusty bloodhounds, but most of all, the small, everyday evidences of true good in the world. Will the Circle Be Unbroken? is his story - told for the first time- of love, loss, and the unlikely hope that we're gonna be alright"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DIETRICH, SEAN DIERobinson, Staci
Summary: "The first and only Estate-authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a moving exploration of his life and powerful legacy, fully illustrated with photos, mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more. Tupac Shakur is one of the greatest and most controversial artists of all time. More than a quarter of a century after his tragic death in 1996 at the age of just twenty-five,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKUR, TUPAC ROBDietrich, Mimi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Martingale 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.46 DIEStack, Andy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 364.1523 STADietrich, Sean
Summary: "It was only a few years after the starry-eyed young couple got married when scary news threatened to take the wind out of their sails. But Sean Dietrich's wife, Jamie, wouldn't let it. She dared to hope for and plan for a great big adventure, and she made him promise to do it with her. For love and the promise of biscuits along the way, Sean - who was never an athlete of any kind - undertook...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Addison-Wesley Pub. 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.42 DORSummary: "The first volume in more than 20 years tells a new and modern story of the U.S. State Department's Diplomatic Reception Rooms, one of the top collections of American fine and decorative arts in existence. The art of United States diplomacy has been conducted over more than two centuries with figures from all over the world, in peacetime and in conflict. For the last six decades, these...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rizzoli Electa 2023
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Summary: The author, the style savant cohost of TLC's What Not to Wear examines the universal obstacles all women, including herself, put in their way. With her unique talent for seeing past disastrous wardrobes to the core emotional issues that caused these sartorial crises, she has transformed not only the looks but also the lives of hundreds of guests who have appeared on What Not to Wear. Now for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Adult 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.9 LONMcAnulty, Stacy
Summary: "A light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon and its history in relation to earth--told from the perspective of the moon itself!"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2019
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Summary: "Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, SAMUEL SCHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio AdamsSchiff, Stacy.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Though her life spanned fewer than 40 years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 932.021 CLEOPATRA SchHinojosa, Stacy
Summary: "Stacy and her intelligent pack of wolves live in harmony together in their cave home in the forest. But when their friend Milo the bat brings news that a baby ocelot is in danger and needs to be returned to his family, Stacy and her wolf Basil must hurry to the jungle biome! After tracking the lost ocelot, they discover he's trapped in a long-lost tower that's full of obstacles, traps, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED HINMcAnulty, Stacy.
Summary: Every kid faces unique challenges, fears and pressures. Every kid can be brave. This book encourages kids to be brave in all the ways they can: trying new things, speaking their mind, confronting bullies, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Running Press Kids 2017
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Summary: "For gardeners who are ready to take their efforts to the next level by planting for birds, butterflies, and other wildlife by focusing on restoring native habitat and using sustainable practices, this offers more than 200 recommendations of specific cultivars, sustainability tips, and facts about how to grarden organically. Regional recommendations are tailored to attracting specific...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2024
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Summary: "David Searcy's writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world, the beauty and cruelty of time, and nothing less than what he calls "the whole idea of meaning." With "casual virtuosity" (the NewYork Times) and an insatiable sense of awe, Searcy leads the reader across the landscapes of his extraordinary mind, moving from the slightly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SEARCY, DAVID SEASpacey, Kevin
Summary: Follows a group of California teenagers as they compete in a prestigious annual Shakespeare festival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Guild 2012
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SHAStaley, Erin.
Summary: Explains the causes of stress and anxiety and presents ways to manage them. --Publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing 2016